War Refugees Live in Baghdad Trash Dump

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War Refugees Live in Baghdad Trash Dump
"They Live on the Garbage" -- No Clean Water, No Sewage, No Electricity
By JANE ARRAF Posted 5 hr. 47 min. ago


Trash dump in southwestern Baghdad area of al-Shoula, home to dozens of Shiite families displaced by sectarian cleansing in formerly mixed neighborhoods.
Photo by Jane Arraf/IraqSlogger


Baghdad – Their old homes were in mixed neighborhoods of Abu Ghraib and a-Haswa. Their new homes are literally built of garbage.

At first glance it looked like a huge field of trash with water buffalo wallowing in stagnant water and piles of garbage burning in the distance.

And then the garbage trucks came. As a landslide of trash came sliding from the backs of the trucks, women in abayas rushed forward to pick through it, darting around the sheep competing with them.

The last time I’d seen people pick through garbage in Iraq was immediately after the 1991 war, when Baghdad was shattered by the bombing and the shock of trade sanctions, when people would do almost anything to eat.

One woman carried away a large square of cardboard. Another flung masses of plastic bags out of her way as she dug deeper into the pile.

“They live on the garbage,” said one of the Iraqi policeman on a highway overpass overlooking the field.

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[nam78_two]

1. K&R

That is so sad...

[CountAllVotes]

4. yeah it is ...

:kick:

[Double T]

2. Welcome to the 'state' of democracy by bush.............

the only thing that stinks more than the garbage is HIMSELF.

[lonestarnot]

3. There's your fucking surge bushitler!

[uppityperson]

5. Everyone only looks at it as bad news.Goodnews is private homeownership is way up in Iraq!

:sarcasm: k&r

[ClayZ]

6. .

:cry:

[truedelphi]

7. The stories of people and their living in garbage dumps, existing by

Skimming from garbage dumps, they make me ill.

They make my heart break.

[Decruiter]

8. "liberation", ain't it GRAND! I really just can't imagine still why our troops

are not getting roses and candy everywhere they go.

(well, yes I can, how would you really feel?)